I will keep it short and sweet today. I’ve lost 9.8 pounds and I have a before and after picture. Look what changing your diet and some exercising can do for you in just 30 days:
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Cliff Day Almost Finished: The hardest part of cooking right…
is cleaning all your stuffff. If we did not have a dishwasher, this whole detox would have gone a much different direction. I’d like to apologize for going MIA for a little bit there, life got busy. We are still doing the detox (albeit with a slip up or two, ie super bowl) and it is still going great. Dena has finished up her 30 days and she will be continuing it into the foreseeable future. I will be done on February 6 and I will be continuing for the most part. Any meals out will be anything goes and all meals at home/lunch will be sticking to the diet. Alcohol will be consumed responsibly.
So, I know youre dying to know how much weight we’ve lost, how great we now look, and all about the great things we’ve been cooking. Ill let Dena dive further into her stats when she posts, but for me now I am around 138, down over 8 pounds! I’m considering this as low as I want to go and will be increasing calories to above 2000 each day (at least trying to). Before/after pictures will be posted. I can definitely see my face looking less inflamed and the abs are back. Dena most certainly did not catch me checking myself out in the mirror.. As expected, I have been struggling most with the going to bed on time, as many nights I have to stay up past midnight to do work. I feel so old wanting to go to bed before 11.
As for the gym, my elbow has healed, just got the all clear from the doctor, and I am ramping up my weightlifting. Unfortunately, I have started getting awful shin splints, and I will be starting physical therapy on those. As for the morning shake, it is time to start adding amino acids, and maybe a touch of creatine. I have decided that it is a must to go in the morning to the gym. In fact I decided this last week when I started a blog post but never posted.
“I also need to get my ass in gear in the AM and hit the gym then. This after work at 7 is not cutting it. Just like I couldn’t do the shake in the morning without protein, I just can’t seem to get a groove going to the gym at night. Cannot emphasize this enough, remember it all about adjustment and what works for you.”Going at 7 or 8 at night is just not sustainable. Your energy is completely gone from working all day, you are either hungry or full depending on if you ate dinner, and the euphoric feelings you get from working out in the morning are glorious. My most productive days at work are after I work out.
All pictures of the food we have been eating can be found on our instagram, and we will be posting recipes later this week, Get ready to be hungry my friends.
Dena Day 17- Well isn’t that sweet…
DID YOU KNOW…
- In a 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed it was proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine?
- Brain imaging studies in humans find that eating-or even seeing pictures of-junk and processed food lights up the brain like heroin?
- Calorie for calorie, sugar is different from other calories that come from protein, fat, or non-starchy carbs such as greens? It scrambles all of your normal appetite controls. As a result, you consume more and more, driving your metabolism to convert it into belly fat.
- Artificial sweeteners trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way? This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat-storage hormone, which leads to more body fat.
Dr. Hyman’s book” The Blood Sugar Solution-10 Day Detox Diet addresses the above facts and further explains just how addictive sugar really is. Unfortunately, it is practically impossible to find packaged foods without sugar in it! The bottom of this post has a list of names for sugar that you can look for on labels and should avoid while detoxing. Even items that you would never expect to have sugar in them, have it! During this detox, Cliff and I searched high and low for chicken broth, as well as diced or crushed tomatoes without sugar added. We finally found what we needed! For chicken broth, Imagine has an organic free range chicken broth and Muir Glen has organic diced tomatoes. Your best luck is to find these items in the organic or health section of your grocery store.
The good news is that once you eliminate sugar from your diet, you no longer crave it. I used to have cravings for something sweet after every meal–especially at night. The first day where I attempted not to have sugar was the hardest. The cravings were so intense that at night I used my yonanas machine to make “ice cream” with a frozen banana and nut butter! I just needed something sweet. For me, I would say it took 3 days for the cravings to go away. The best part of this detox has been that I now feel in control on my eating!
Today, Dr. Hyman posted on his blog “10 Ways To Ditch Your Cravings for Sugar, Salt, and Fats” Check it out! http://drhyman.com/blog/2013/08/10/10-ways-to-ditch-your-cravings-for-sugar-salt-and-fats/
-Dena
List of Names of Sugar
1. Barley malt
2. Barbados sugar
3. Beet sugar
4. Brown sugar
5. Buttered syrup
6. Cane juice
7. Cane sugar
8. Caramel
9. Corn syrup
10. Corn syrup solids
11. Confectioner’s sugar
12. Carob syrup
13. Castor sugar
14. Date sugar
15. Dehydrated cane juice
16. Demerara sugar
17. Dextran
18. Dextrose
19. Diastatic malt
20. Diatase
21. Ethyl maltol
22. Free Flowing Brown Sugars
23. Fructose
24. Fruit juice
25. Fruit juice concentrate
26. Galactose
27. Glucose
28. Glucose solids
29. Golden sugar
30. Golden syrup
31. Grape sugar
32. HFCS (High Frustose Corn Syrup… Very Bad!)
33. Honey
34. Icing sugar
35. Invert sugar
36. Lactose
37. Malt
38. Maltodextrin
39. Maltose
40. Malt syrup
41. Mannitol
42. Maple syrup
43. Molasses
44. Muscovado
45. Panocha
46. Powdered Sugar
47. Raw sugar
48. Refiner’s syrup
49. Rice syrup
50. Sorbitol
51. Sorghum syrup
52. Sucrose
53. Sugar (granulated)
54. Treacle
55. Turbinado sugar
56. Yellow sugar
Bonus (Fake Sugars):
Splenda
Aspartame
Dena-Day 7
Starting a new plan and way of eating can be very daunting and appear to require too much work and effort on your part. Last March, when Cliff and I did Dr. Hyman’s 10 Day Detox Diet, I stressed way too much over having to be perfect and I did not want to stray too far from the dinner recipes given in the book. The best part of following the book’s recipes was that I learned many new recipes and found some new favorites which I have continued to make regularly. If this is your first time trying to detox, I HIGHLY recommend following Dr. Hyman’s plan and trying as many recipes in the book as you can! They are super yummy! However, instead of following one of these recipes, Dr. Hyman does say that you can opt for choosing a green to steam or lightly saute such as broccoli, asparagus, arugula, spinach, kale or chard, and combine it with 4-6oz of protein such as chicken, turkey, salmon, shrimp, grass-fed meat,canned salmon, sardines or herring, hard boiled omega 3 eggs,tofu or temph.
So this time around, in order to save some time and relieve stress, Cliff and I are trying to make dinners so we have leftovers that will last us. My favorite thing to make is a roasted chicken. And by my favorite thing to make…I really mean my favorite thing I eat that I make Cliff make. It requires very little effort to cook one of these and in my opinion, you get the most bang for your cluck…I mean buck. Now we have left overs that are versatile and can go in many dishes. I was able to add some chicken to my salad I had for lunch today and Cliff and I had some for dinner tonight and there is still a bunch left! Another cooking time saver I have discovered is roasting vegetables. Drizzle a little olive oil, salt, and pepper over your veggies and pop them in the oven. I make sure I make extra so I have those leftovers. Tonight’s dinner included chicken, left over broccoli and mashed garlic cauliflower (another one of my favorite sides!)
Clenaeating 